Aperture Magazine

[Brian Moore]

Looks like a good read!

 

[Gary R. Smith]

Looks like a good read!

So far it has been much more enjoyable than the first issue that I received. It has articles that I can relate to whereas the earlier issue seemed too full of itself. Who knows? Maybe it's me too full of myself?

 

[Paul Taylor]

I am a damned, dirty pirate with magazines. I download them off newsgroups. This includes all the generic "digital photographer" magazines which there seems to be a never ending stream of different titles - where I find the most interesting content to be the reader submissions. I usually thumb through Aperture as well - and have mixed "mehs" about it as well. Perhaps I am just not artsy-smarts enough to "get it." Occasionally I will stumble across a magazine like "Photo Insights" - and I do rather like that one, and other similar small publisher magazines.

I worked with magazines for years, and watching how many of them were killed off was disappointing. I think I have replaced the missing magazines with YouTube creators however, and I do like the myriad of different photographers I watch on that service.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

I usually thumb through Aperture as well

So far I've actually enjoyed this issue but it's only the second one I've received. Unlike the first one, this one seems to be about photographers and their photographic projects.

I may need to search out "Photo Insights".

 

[Gary R. Smith]

The Fall issue arrived the other day and after browsing the whole thing once, I read one article, browsed it again and it's now in the pile to take to the library. I can't say that subscribing to this has enriched my appreciation of photography or photographers. So far, each issue has included at least a couple of interesting photographs but the signal to noise ratio is not quite worth what it's cost.

My 2 cents (so you don't have to spend yours).

 

[Pete Askew]

I used to subscribe to Aperture and enjoyed it while I did. I found myself drowning in magazines though and pared my subscriptions back. I now only subscribe to LFI and Studies in Photography (a quarterly journal of the Scottish Society for the History of Photography) and keep all of the back-issues. I have still got my copies of Aperture though as well as a select few others, but the rest have mostly gone. I do have a few years of Black and White Photography and BJP stored at work looking for a good home (free, but limited to the UK due to the cost of shipping) if anyone is interested).